| Description |
1 online resource (333 pages) |
| Contents |
Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: New Women and Families in the New Germany; 2 "Prevent: Don't Abort": The Medicalization and Politicization of Sexuality; 3 Birth Control, Marriage, and Sex Counseling Clinics: The Administration of Sex Reform; 4 "Your Body Belongs to You": Abortion and the 1931 Campaign Against Paragraph 218; 5 Forbidden Love: Sex Reform and the Crisis of the Republic, 1931 to 1933; 6 Continuity and Discontinuity: Gleichschaltung and the Destruction of the Sex Reform Movement; 7 Weimar Sex Reform in Exile; 8 No Zero Hour: Abortion and Birth Control in Postwar Germany |
| Summary |
Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources--from police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand bookstores--the book analyzes a remarkable mass mobilization during the turbulent and innovative Weimar years of doctors and laypeople for women's right to abortion and public access to birth c |
| Analysis |
Birth control - Germany - History - 20th century |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Birth control -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Contraception -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Abortion -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Abortion.
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Birth control.
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Contraception.
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Eugenics.
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Germany.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781601297198 |
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160129719X |
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